THE ORCHID REVIEW. 147 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
PHALENoPSIS X ARIADNE. 
ANOTHER very interesting Phaleenopsis has been raised by Mr. Seden, in the 
establishment of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of which we have received 
a five-flowered raceme. The parents are P. Aphrodite ? and P. Stuart- 
iana g, and their characters are well combined in the offspring. The 
leaves are said to be slightly mottled. The sepals and petals are white, 
and of the usual shape, and the lip is as nearly intermediate as can be; the 
side lobes being less oblique than in P. Aphrodite, but the markings almost 
as in that species, while the front lobe has subacute basal angles, the 
basal half or rather more being densely spotted with purple, and the rest 
white. The tendrils are half-an-inch long, and broad at the base, but 
slender above, and gradually incurved. The inner halves of the lateral 
sepals also bear numerous minute purple dots, as in P. Stuartiana. It is a 
very interesting addition to the group, and as handsome as its two parents. 
In shape it is comparable to P. x leucorrhoda, now well known as a 
natural hybrid between P. Aphrodite and P. Schilleriana. It flowered for 
the first time when five years old. 
THE CATTLEYA FLY. 
As I was unfortunate enough to get in an importation of Cattleya labiata 
this terrible pest, I have been an interested reader of the correspondence 
you kindly invited on the subject, and I regret that you have had no replies 
of a character to relieve the minds of sufferers. Mr. Millington and his 
gardener seem to have exhausted every known remedy without success, 
and if anyone knows how to eradicate the fly, surely they will respond to 
your call for information, and give us the benefit of their experience. The 
first advice I got in the matter was to “burn the lot.” Drastic enough 
this; but one would just about as soon throw them in the fire as have to 
cut off every decent lead that appears, only to find that in the succeeding 
lead the treatment has to be repeated, the leads always getting weaker as 
time goes on. I have cut them off containing pupe in every stage to the 
black shining rascal just ready to get out on his deadly errand. I have 
noticed that in the first, and sometimes the second, lead that has been 
taken off, the swelling at the base is so pronounced as not to escape the 
observation of anyone keeping a look-out, but in later breaks no such swell- 
ing occurs, and the fly is out before it is noticed. I believe this is one of 
the reasons why cutting out is not so successful as it should be. Mr. 
Roberts, the grower at Arddarroch, sprays his Orchids very frequently with 
